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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AFTER 



A Souvenir of the Twenty fifth Anniversary of the 
Graduation from Rutgers College, n. j., 
OF the Class of 1876 



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PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE CLASS 



NEW YORK 
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REV. WILLIAM HENRY CAMPBELL, D.D.. LL.D. 
President of Rutgers College, 1863-1882 



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Preface 



IN JUNE LAST the Rutgers class of 1876 observed, in a quiet way, the twenty- 
fifth anniversary of its graduation. This little book is an echo of that re-union, 
and is printed, under class auspices, as a souvenir of the occasion. It is not 
intended for the public eye. It appeals simply to a few friends who were brought 
into close and happy fellowship in the days of their youth, and to whom college 
memories are among the most sacred and precious of their lives. 

The natural interest they still have in one another will account for the 
attempt which is here made to tell, in brief, the story of each man's life, and to 
indicate, so far as possible, his present whereabouts and employment. The 
portraits which accompany the biographical sketches are for the most part from 
recent photographs, and fairly represent the men of the class as they appear to-day. 
That of Governor Voorhees is from a cut which has been kindly furnished us by 
the magazine Success, in which appeared recently an interesting article on that 
subject from the pen of our distinguished classmate. For the pictures of the college 
buildings we are indebted to Mr. Irving S. Upson, and for those of our old pro- 
fessors to members of their families. 

The compiler takes this opportunity of conveying his thanks to those of the 
class who in various ways have assisted him in his task, and, by these presents, 
also, freely forgives the fellows whose sins of procrastination and omission have 
prevented him from bringing it to completion at a much earlier day. 

H. M. C. 
New York, November i^, 1901. 



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PROF. GEORGE H. COOK, LL.D. 

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GEOLOGICAL HALL 



Introduction 

ON A BRIGHT DAY in the early autumn of 1872 the bell in old Queen's 
College rang out a cheery welcome to the student throng who were 
returning, after the long summer holiday, to resume their wonted tasks. Scattered 
here and there about the campus were little groups of Seniors, Juniors and 
Sophomores, exchanging friendly greetings and otherwise engaged in familiar 
conversation. On that particular morning, however, the interest centered chiefly 
in the band of raw recruits, numbering somewhat over fifty, whom everybody 
recognized, from their manner and appearance, as belonging to the incoming 
Freshman class. 

What a motley company it was. Some were mere boys, who, if they had 
attained the age required for admission to the college, certainly gave no evidence 
of the fact in their countenances. Others, more mature in years, had already 
reached the verge of young manhood. Some had tarried long enough in Jericho, 
or elsewhere, for their beards to grow, but few of them, at that time, laid claim to 
any such distinction. In other respects, as in the matter of age, it was rather a 
heterogeneous looking crowd. There were men among us — two at least — who, 
even then, were preachers of the gospel, and divided their time between the 
college and the churches which they served. Another looked enough like a 
minister to be mistaken for one occasionally, although his bent was not exactly in 
that direction. But then, as now, sanctity and side-whiskers were regarded by 
some people as standing in rather close relationship. There were fellows fresh 
from the farm and from the workshop. One or two had been teachers in country 
schools. Several had served their time as clerks, bookkeepers or salesmen in 
mercantile establishments, while a goodly number, perhaps the majority, had had 
no sterner experience of life than falls to the lot of the average boy in comfortable 
circumstances, who has always gone to school and is now ready for college. 

But what a change was witnessed in those four eventful years that we were 
together. Some of us were youthful enough and verdant enough when we began, 
but every one of us had donned the toga virilis long before we reached the point 




PROF. T. SANDFORD DOOLITTLE, D.D. 



INTRODUCTION 



of graduation. The rough edges, which were somewhat conspicuous in Freshman 
year, had perceptibly worn off. The Faculty had hard work with some of us, but 
by the time thev were ready to cast us loose upon the world they had succeeded 
tolerably well, in " knocking us into shape," and when the time came to say 
" Good-bye " we were ready to go, and they were willing enough to have us go. 
In fact, it is generally believed that they heaved a deep and long-drawn sigh of 
relief when the class of '76 was fairly off their hands. What a noisy, rollicking, 
jolly set of fellows they were, full of fun, but with enough of sober sense to serve for 
ballast and to hold them to their tasks; in some instances with a positive genius 
for hard work that served them well when hard work was no longer a matter of 
taste but a stern necessity. 

It is a far cry from this day of grace to which we have come, to that other 
day, that day of terror, when we satin fear and trembling before those arch inquisi-, 
tors who conducted the college entrance examinations. And what havoc they 
made with our hopes and our ambitions. Scarcely a dozen passed through the 
ordeal unscathed. The distinguished divine who sits enthroned to-day, in one of 
the most conspicuous pulpits in the land, can laugh now at the professor who 
conditioned him in English grammar: and the statesinan who presides over the 
commonwealth of New Jersey can smile as blandly as the quondam instructor 
who once regarded him as somewhat deficient in the history of his country. 
Time has evened up some of those old scores. In spite of such sad incidents, 
however, and they were numerous enough, the college gales swung open to 
receive us, and after we had solemnly sworn that we would neither play cards, 
drink whiskey, nor keep any means of gaming in our rooms, we were duly 
matriculated by the venerable President, dear old Dr. Campbell. It is true these 
ancient requirements were somewhat liberally interpreted by certain members of 
the class, but then, there is always room for difference of opinion on constitutional 
questions, even between students and professors. 

We were now fairly launched upon the stream of college life. We had our 
troubles, to be sure, but we had our joys and compensations also, with rather 
more of joy than sorrow, for those were the halcyon days of our lives. 

We needed no instruction in the art of relieving the tedium of our work, 
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irksome, there was always a brief interim, between the acts, when our pent-up 
feelings found relief in song — or otherwise. It did not take a great while to 
discover that there were a number of men in the class who could do somewhat 
more than carry a tune. We were only Freshmen then, but were there ever 
Freshmen who could sing like Lyali, and Taylor, and Lefferts, and Van Deusen, 
and Osborn, not to speak of others, whose voices rang out strong and sweetly 
whenever there was "music in the air" ? Taylor, Kelly and Prince sang first bass, 
and Lefferts second bass, and if there were a third bass, Colburn and Staats must 
have taken that part, for no song with an extra de profuiidis twist to it could ever 
have been complete without their voices. When our singers found themselves, 
the organization of the Glee Club followed, as a matter of course. Lefferts was a 
prime mover in that movement, and to his executive ability and love of music 
much of its success was due. At first it was purely a class affair, but out of it 
grew the College Glee Club, which is singing yet the songs of Rutgers with the 
same gusto as of old, and to audiences equally enthusiastic and appreciative. May 
its shadow never grow less. 

Some other things happened during Freshman year, of equal interest to 
ourselves, though possibly of less importance to the world. It was at this period 
that a certain famous treatise on "'The Animal Kingdom " first saw the light. It 
was not precisely a composite essay, but, like the Declaration of Independence, 
was prepared by a committee appointed for the purpose, and duly signed, sealed, 
and delivered to the properly constituted authority, as an individual and official 
expression of the sentiments of the class on the scientific aspects of that important 
question. It served by implication also to suggest our views on another question, 
not scientific but intensely personal, and affecting our rights as free and inde- 
pendent Freshmen. Booth was our Thomas Jefferson, and when his paper was 
submitted to our approval, we signed it, to a man, realizing, as someone suggested 
with reference to the other matter, that if we did not all hang together we were 
liable to hang separately. Of course we hung together, and survived. That was 
"a way we had at old Rutgers." Sometimes it appeared to be the only way by 
which we could effectually impress our ideas upon the ruling powers. We were 
not seeking for fame just then, but George William Curtis thrust it upon us when 
he told the story, not long afterwards, in the Editor's Drawer of Harper's Maga- 



INTRODUCTION 1 5 



line, and supplemented it, if we remember rightly, witli liberal extracts from 
our essay. 

No class organization is ever complete until a poet has been chosen. We had 
read enough Latin by this time, to have become familiar with the ancient dictum, 
Poeta nascitur, orator fit. There was one man among us whom we recognized 
as possessing all the necessary qualifications of both poet and orator. There was 
no doubt whatever that he was '-nascitur,'' and subsequent developments 
proved conclusively that he was "/?/." There was only one thing to do, and 
forthwith we clapped the laurel wreath upon the brow of Freddy Paul. He has 
worn it worthily ever since, and to this day, is our poet par excellence. He does 
not court the muse for fame, but whenever his poetical services are required for 
class purposes the divine afflatus is never lacking. 

During our second year in college we began to enter into competition with 
one another for literary and oratorical honors. Van Deusen carried off the first 
prize, and Sutphen the second, at the Sophomore Exhibition. Their competitors 
were Taylor, Lyall, Price, Milliken, Lefferls and Staats. 

A leaf from the historian's diary recalls the tact that there were some athletic 
contests, also, in which we were, about that time, successfully engaged. In the 
autumn of Sophomore year we vanquished the Juniors, our traditional foe, upon 
the football field, and thereby became the champions of the college. It took two 
exclamation marks to describe our enthusiasm over that victory, and about three 
zero marks to cool our ardor on the following day, when we were obliged to 
admit that a fellow can't usually put up a winning game of football and strike ten 
three times in succession at recitations the day after. 

There was one text-book in use at that time, for which we had no great 
affection, viz. : Freeman's Outlines of History. It was accordingly decided that 
when the time came to lay it aside, the circumstance should be attended with some 
ceremony. An elaborate programme of cremation and funeral exercises was 
prepared, and on June i6, 1874, Freeman was committed to the tomb. 'With 
flaming torches and demoniacal yells, the mourners advanced, in solemn proces- 
sion, to the campus, where the funeral rites were celebrated. 'Winfleld delivered 
a historical address and Sutphen a eulogistic oration. A hymn which he had also 
prepared for the occasion, was then sung, aftei' which, Cox preached his first 



INTRODUCTION 1 7 



funeral sermon, from the familiar text, "Things have now come to a head." The 
exercises were concluded with a dirge, whereupon we dried our tears and went 
home. 

" In Junior year we played our parts " very much after the time-honored tradi- 
tion of the song. There was some love making and some heart smashing. Cupid 
invaded our ranks and snatched from us one or two of our handsomest men, who, 
all too soon, were sacrificed upon the hymeneal altar. Then came the summer 
solstice, and with it the crowning glory of the year, the Junior Exhibition. Sut- 
phen, Taylor, Cox and Van Zandt were the orators, who represented the Peithes- 
sophian Society, while Milliken, Bradley, Pierce and Vredenburgh appeared as thestan- 
dard bearers of the Philocleans. What they said, no one remembers now. What they 
did, was to face the music, and the mighty throng that filled the old Opera House, 
from pit to dome, pronounce their little speeches, and retire behind the scenes, 
laden with the spoils of their latest oratorical triumph — the fruits and tlowers which 
were lavished upon them by fair friends, with unstinted generosity. There were 
no prizes then for eloquence. The occasion furnished all the inspiration that was 
necessary, and every man was happy in the plaudits of admiring friends. A year 
later we stood once more upon the same platform for the final alignment. Taylor, 
F. M. Voorhees, Walser, Pierce — these were the men who graduated with the 
highest rank, while Milliken, Lyall, Kelly, Cox, Duryee and John S. Voorhees 
followed in something like the order named, and were duly initiated into Phi Beta 
Kappa. The others, who shared with them the honors of the commencement 
stage, were Staats, Wintleld, Nevius, Minor and Sutphen. The prize men of the 
class, in the final round-up, were F. M. Voorhees, Winfield, Kelly, Pierce, Staats, 
Lyall, Kuehnle and Cox. Voorhees bagged the Broadhead Prize for Classics (ist), 
and the Appleton Prize for Moral Philosophy ; Pierce, the Suydam Prize for Natural 
Science, and the Bradley Prize for Mathematics; Lyall, the Van Doren Prize for 
Missions; Kuehnle, the Bowser Prize for the best Thesis; Winfield and Kelly, the 
Cooper Prize for Classics (2d); and Staats and Cox, the Suydam Prize for Compo- 
sition. Then Billy Taylor pronounced the valedictory. The curtain fell upon the 
last scene. The play was ended, the lights were out, and we were adrift upon the 
world, and face to face with our destiny. 

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them, the individual records of the class, which follow, only faintly indicate. Some 
promises have been realized, some hopes have been blasted, some ambitions satis- 
fied, but the end is not yet. Death has repeatedly invaded our ranks. Casper 
was taken from us in the early part of our college course, and Ross only a few 
weeks before graduation. Walser died at the very threshold of his career, and 
before his talents had had full opportunity for development. Johnson lived to win 
the gratitude and affection of those who knew him as a good physician and a 
faithful friend. John Woodbridge, who was with us during Freshman year, and 
of the Scientific Section of the class, Aumack, Devan, Roe, and Jerome Johnson, 
have all passed into the silent land. Of our old instructors, President Campbell, 
clarnni et venerabile iioiiieii, and Professors Cook, Doolittle, and Reily, are no 
more. The only members of the Faculty of our day who are still identified with 
the college, are Drs. Cooper, Myers, Van Dyck and Bowser. These and others 
like them were the men who helped to make us what we are, and whose names 
we still hold in grateful and affectionate remembrance. We have been growing 
since we laid aside the swaddling clothes of college infancy and so has our beloved 
Alma Mater. New evidences of material prosperity have been springing up from 
time to time. Some of the things we longed for as students, our sons are now 
enjoying, or have in prospect, if they have not already entered college halls. The 
elegant dormitory, known as Winant's Hall, is one of them. The beautiful and 
well equipped gymnasium, erected by the munificence of Robert F. Ballantine, is 
another, while New Jersey Hall, a costly and beautiful structure of recent date, has 
added immeasurably, not only to the attractiveness of the college grounds, but to 
the more complete equipment of the School of Science. If we cannot rear to the 
honor of the college a monumental structure such as these, let us hope that 
before another quarter century has run its course, we may be able to express in 
terms, substantial and enduring, our love and fealty to the common mother of us 
all, and in so doing, make history that shall last for coming generations, when 
our names are all forgotten, and this little souvenir shall be left to gather dust in 
the musty archives of the college library. 



HENRY M. COX. 



Cbe eia$$ of i$76 



CLASSICAL SECTION 



Walden, N. Y. 

178 Bluff, Yokohama, Japan. 

18 James Street, Newark, N. J. 

1 1 S3 Park Avenue, New York City. 

Niskayuna, N. Y. 

765 Broad Street, Newark, N. J. 

308 Varick Street, Jersey City, N. J. 

. New Brunswick, N.J. 



Aycrigg, John Bancker, A. M., M. D., . 
Booth, Eugene Samuel, A. M., Rev., 
Bradley, Charles, A. M., 
Cox, Henry Miller, A. M., Rev.. 
DiTMARS, Cornelius Peterson, A. M., Rev 
DuRYEE, Edward Henry, A. M., LL. B., 
GiLLMORE, William Budd, A. M., 
''Johnson, Henry Niles, A. M., M. D. 
Kelly, Haydn Clarke, A. M., LL. B., . 
LiMEBURNER, Charles Abbott, A. M., M. D., 79 Danforth Avenue, Jersey City, N. J. 
Lyall, John Edward, A. M., Rev., . . . South Millbrook, N. Y. 

Milliken, Peter Houston, A. M., Ph. D., D. D., Rev., 

1737 West Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Minor, Albert Dod, A. M., Rev Mohawk, N. Y. 

Murray, David, A. M., . . . 3s Nassau Street, New York City. 

Nasholds, William Hosea, A. M., Rev., .... Selkirk, N. Y. 

Nevius, George Luther, A. M., LL. B., . 610 Temple Court, Minneapolis, Minn, 
Price, William Horton, A. M., . 2S5 Burnet Street, New Brunswick, N. J. 
Prince, John Duffield, Jr., A. M., LL. B., 213 Montague Street, Brooklyn, N. Y, 
RoMEYN, James Augustus, A. M., . . 357 Union Street, Hackensack, N.J 

ScHOMP, William Wyckoff, A. M., Rev Walden, N. Y, 

Staats, Bergen Brokaw, A. M., Rev., . 592 Broadway, Long Branch City, N. J 
SuTPHEN, Paul Frederick, A. M., D. D., Rev., 757 Prospect Street, Cleveland, O 
Taylor, William Rivers, A. M., D. D., Rev., 1 3 Prince Street, Rochester, N. Y 

LL. D., . 142 Broad Street, Elizabeth, N. J 
Bishop Place, New Brunswick, N, J 



VooRHEES, Foster McGowan, A. M. 
Voorhees, John Schenck, A. M., . 
"'Walser, Theodore Havelock, 
WiNFiELD, Harry Westbrook, A. M. 



LL. B., 

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''Casper, John P. 
CoLBURN, Edwin Everett, 
Lefferts, John. Jr., LL. B., . 
Moore, Thomas Morrell, 
MuNDY, Frank Jarvis, A. M., D. D., Rev., 
OuTSKA (Utsuka), Nagateru Yasujiro, 
Stubbs, Roland Henshall, A. B., M. D., . 
Van Deusen, Courtland Calvin, 
Van Zandt, William Armitage, . i 

Vredenburgh, La Rue, 
^Woodbridge, John Eliot, A. B.. Rev. 
WooDBRiDGE, Samuel Isett, A. B., Rev., . 



45 First Street, Albany, N. Y. 

164 Montague Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

. 718 Ellicott Square, Buffalo, N. Y. 

Atlantic City, N. J. 

(?) Imari, Japan. 

. 10 Broad Street, Waterford, N. Y. 

. Canaan Four Corners, N. Y. 

76 West 137th Street, New York City. 

. Somerville, N. J. 

. Chinkiang, China. 



scientific section 



KuEHNLE, George William, M. Sc. 
Pierce, Carlton Brownell, M. Sc, 



137 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, N.J. 
1 13 Broadway, New York City. 



*AuMACK, William. 

Cutler, Willard Walker, 
*Devan, Spencer Cone. 
*JoHNsoN, Jerome. 

Osborne, William Hubert. 

Palmer, Joseph Godfrey, 
*RoE, Charles S. 
*Ross, Edwin Forrest. 

Vanderpoel, Isaac Denman. 

Warren, John, Jr., M. D., 

Wortendyke, Nicholas Dorenius, 



24 Washington Street, Morristown, N. J. 



Colorado Springs, Col. 



106 East 29th Street, New York City. 
. City Hall, Jersey City, N. J. 



Biograpbical Sketches 



WAS BORN in 
Jersey. He pre- 
pared for college at the Rut- 
gers Grammar School. After 
completing the course at Rut- 
gers, he studied medicine at 
the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons in New York, and 
graduated from that institution 
in 1879 with the degree of 
M. D. He practiced medicine 
for a number of years, but 
afterwards became interested 
in stock farming and dairying. 
This business he is still carry- 
ing on near Walden, Orange 
County, N. Y. In 1879 he 
married Lottie B. Carryl. They 
have two children, a girl, Lot- 
tie C, and a boy, Benjamin M. 



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3obn P. Casper 

EVERY MEMBER of the class will readily recall his form and features. He 
was tall and commanding in appearance, with a face that plainly betokened 
the devout and sober earnestness of the man. He entered college with the view 
of preparing himself for the gospel ministry, but died before he had completed 
the first year of his course. His remains were conveyed to his old home at Howe's 
Cave, N. Y., by a committee of the class, whose presence at his burial was an 
expression of the general feeling of respect for his memory and of sorrow at his 
taking off. This was the first break that death made in our ranks. 



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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 



Eugene Samuel Bootb 




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lORN AT Trumbull. 

Fairfield County. Con- 

^^mb^ necticut, August 16, 1850, the 

j[fipr^nB|k only son of Samuel L. Booth 

M "**' '^ ^% and Abigail Coan, daughter of 

^ ■« the Hon. Albert S. Coan, of 

Trumbull. He prepared for 
college at Fort Edward Colle- 
giate Institute, Washington 
County, N. Y., then under the 
principalship of the Rev. Joseph 
E. King, D. D., and graduated 
in due course, from Rutgers in 
1876, and from the Theological 
Seminary at New Brunswick, 
N. J., in 187Q. In the same 
year, he was licensed and or- 
dained by the Classis of New 
Brunswick, and shortly after 
wards, entered upon his life work as a missionary to Japan under the commission 
of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church in America. 

In December, 1879, he opened a school for Japanese boys at Nagasaki, but 
failing health soon made a change of residence imperative. He removed to Yoko- 
hama in 1881, and in the following year, was appointed Principal of Ferris Semi- 
nary, a school for Japanese girls and young women, located in that city. This 
position he still holds. In 1886-7, on the occasion of a visit to this country, he 
succeeded in raising $15,000, for the purchase of the site on which the school 
stands, and the erection of Van Schaick Hall and dormitories, which form the chief 
accommodations of the seminary. 

in February, 1900, he became pastor of the Union Church at Yokohama, a 
church whose mission it is to minister to the spiritual needs of the English-speaking 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 25 

residents and sojourners in that city. This work he is carrying on, in addition to 
his principalship of the seminary and the duties incident to his missionary work. 

He is President of the North Japan Mission; Director of Meiji Gakuin, Tokyo; 
Honorary Secretary for Yokohama of the Asiatic Society of Japan: Member of the 
Executive Committee of the American Asiatic Association of Japan, etc., etc. 

On July 24, 1879, he was married to Emily, youngest daughter of the late 
James R. Stelle, of New Brunswick, of which union have been born the following: 
Frank Stelle, May 15, 1880: Walter Andrews, August i, 1883 (deceased): Eugenie 
Coan, March 27, 1885; Stanley Middlebrook, July 5, 1888 (deceased); Ferris Cobb, 
October 12, 1891 ; Hugh St. Leger, May 12, 1893. 



Charles Bradley 

BORN IN Newark, N. J., 
August ^i, 18S7. Son 
of Hon. Joseph P. Bradley, of 
the Rutgers class of 1836. As- 
sociate Justice of the Supreme 
Court of the United States, and 
Mary Hornblower, daughter of 
Chief-Justice Hornblower, of 
New Jersey. 

His education, prior to en- 
tering college, was received 
partly in private schools and 
partly in the Newark Academy, 
and in the Rutgers Grammar 
School, where he spent three 
years, under the care and tui- 
tion of the late Professor D. T. 
Reiley. After graduation, he 
attended, for a short time, the 
Columbian Law School, in Washington, D. C, and in 1877, entered the United 
States Custom House in New York, where he remained for about a year. Later, 




26 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 



he became associated with the firm of H. V. Butler, Jr. & Co., wholesale paper 
dealers, in New York, and in 1883, became the Secretary of P. Ballantine & Sons, 
brewers, of Newark, N. J., and has been connected with that business ever since- 
taking an active part in the management of its large interests, and being closely 
identified with the business interests of Newark generally. He either is, or has 
been, a Director of the Essex Passenger Railway Company, the Newark City 
National Bank, Newark Board of Trade, Newark Library Association, State Director 
of the United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company, Trustee of the New Jersey 
Historical Society, Delegate to the Republican National Convention at St. Louis, 
June, 1896, Governor of the University Club of Newark, and President of the 
Rutgers College Alumni Association. He has edited a genealogical history of the 
Bradley family, and has discussed public and current affairs, from time to time, 
editorially, in the columns of the city press. He is not only a trustee, but a very 
active member of the New Jersey Historical Society, and of the " Sons of the 
Revolution," and is identified with many clubs, including the University, of New 
York; University, of Newark; Essex, of Newark; Newark Athletic; EssexCounty 
Country, of Orange: Morris County Golf, etc. His ecclesiastical affiliations are 
with the old North Reformed Church, of Newark, of which his father was one of 
the founders, and for many years, an active and honored member. In the summer 
of 1900, after twenty years of arduous labor, he took his first protracted vacation, 
spending three or four months in Europe and returning home, feeling " like a 
boy," as he expresses it. 

On April 12, 1882, he married Julie E. Ballantine, daughter of Robert P. 
Ballantine, a trustee of the college, and donor of the Ballantine Gymnasium. They 
have four children (i) son, 18 years; (2) son, 15 years; (3) daughter, 7 years, and 
(4) son, 4 years. 

mniiatn Jlrmitdde Uan Zandt 

BORN AT Albany, N. Y. Prepared for college at the Rutgers Grammar 
School. He \et\ college a short lime before graduation, and has since been 
engaged in business. His name appears in the New York Directory of 1901 as a 
resident of that city and a broker. He is married and has a family, but no further 
information regarding him has been elicited. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 



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l)enrv miller €ox 



BORN IN Brooklyn, N. Y., 
July s, i8s4. Son of 
James B. Cox, a New York 
merchant, and Emily E. Miller, 
daughter of the Rev. George 
B. Miller, D. D., for many 
years Professor of Theology at 
Hartwick Seminary, N. Y. 

He prepared for college at 
the Pavonia Grammar School, 
Jersey City, N. J., Hartwick 
Seminary, N. Y., and the Rut- 
gers Grammar School, New 
Brunswick, N. J. 

After completing the col- 
lege course at Rutgers, he en- 
tered the Theological Seminary 
at New Brunswick, from which 
he was graduated in 1879. He 

began his ministry in Jersey City, and was pastor of the South Bergen Reformed 
Church, on Jersey City Heights, from 1879 to 1882. From 1882 to 1890 he was 
pastor of the Reformed Church of Herkimer, N. Y.. and from 1890 to 1899 of the 
Union Reformed Church of Highhridge, in the Citv of New York. In 1901, he 
became identified with the Prospect Hill Reformed Church, in New York, in whose 
service he is still engaged. 

Throughout his ministry, he has been active in the work ofthe denomination 
to which he belongs, and in other religious and benevolent enterprises. 

For a number of years he was Secretary, and afterwards President, of the 
Herkimer County Bible Society. He has also been President of the Particular Synod 
of Albany, Stated Clerk of the Classis of Montgomery, Member of the Board of 
Managers of the Herkimer Y. M. C. A., which he was largely instrumental in 




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organizing, and a Member of the Board of Superintendents of the Theological 
Seminary at New Brunswick. For six years, he was Chairman of the Permanent 
Committee on Systematic Beneficence, of the General Synod of the Reformed 
Church, and has represented the Synod at various times, as Corresponding Dele- 
gate to other religious bodies. He is, at present, a member of the Board of 
Publication of the Reformed Church, of the Phi Beta Kappa Association of New 
York, the Rutgers Club, and other organizations. 

In addition to numerous reports, leaflets and newspaper articles which have 
appeared, from time to time, in the religious and secular press, he has published a 
History of the Reformed Church of Herkimer, N. Y., half a dozen sermons, some 
sketches of foreign travel, and an address delivered at the funeral of Gen. Francis 
E. Spinner, together with a number of other discourses, good, bad and indifferent, 
which, at the request of friends, have been allowed to see the light. 

He married Lizzie Randall Burst, of Brooklyn, N. Y., October 28, 1886. 
They have four children, viz.: a son, Henry Randall, 14 years old; and three 
daughters, Frances Sheldon, Emily Miller, and Elizabeth Howard, between the 
ages of 8 and 12 years. 

Jobn barren 

BORN IN New Brunswick, N. J., September 24, 1856. Son of T. Rob- 
inson Warren. Prepared for college at the Rutgers Grammar School. 
Entered with the class of '76, but left college at the end of the Sophomore year. 
For two or three years he was in business in Wall Street, New York, but began 
the study of medicine, in 1877, with Dr. Henry R. Baldwin, of New Brunswick, 
N. J., and graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Uni- 
versity, New York, in 1881, with the degree of M. D. He served for two years 
on the medical staff at Bellevue Hospital, New York, 1880-1882, and has since 
practiced medicine in New York. In 1886 he was appointed Medical Examiner 
for the Equitable Life Assurance Society, of New York, and has ever since been 
connected with that institution. In December, 1898, he went to London, England, 
as Medical Director for the Society for Great Britain and Ireland, and served in 
that capacity until December, 1900, when he was appointed Assistant Medical Direc- 
tor at the home office in New York, which position he still holds. He is unmarried. 



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Cornelius Petmon Ditmars 




BORN AT Roycefield, Somerset County, N. J., April 2-^, 1853. Son of 
Ralph T. Ditmars and Sarah Brokaw. His parents were of Danish and 
Holland stock, mingled, as in the case of so many of the old Dutch families, with 
that of the Huguenots of France. After receiving a thorough common-school 
education, he entered the Rutgers College Grammar School at New Brunswick, in 
1871, where he completed his preparation for college. In 1876, he entered the 
Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, from which he graduated in 1879. He 
was ordained the same year to the gospel ministry, and became pastor of the 
Reformed Church at Leeds, N. Y., where he remained for four years. In 1883, he 



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was called to succeed the late Rev. John A. De Baun, D. D., as pastor of the 
Reformed Church of Niskayuna, N. Y. In this field, in which he has been 
eminently useful, he still abides. His long and successful pastorate is the best 
proof of the esteem in which he is held by his people. In addition to his parish 
work, he has rendered much and efficient service to the church at large, in both 
official and unofficial ways. Since i88s, he has been the Stated Clerk and Treas- 
urer of the Classis of Schenectady, and since 1889, has held the same offices in the 
Particular Synod of Albany. He has been, for a number of years, a member of 
the Board of Superintendents of the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, and 
is, at present, serving his third term, of five years, in that office. In 1884, he 
became a contributor to The Christian Intelligencer. Since that time, nearly seventy 
articles from his pen, have appeared in its columns. A discourse which he 
preached on the occasion of the i soth anniversary of the Church of Niskayuna, 
October 4, 1900, entitled " A Chapter in Church History," has also been published 
recently in the form of a pamphlet. 

He was married December 2^, 1879, to Leah Van Duyne, of Newark, N. J. 
Their children are as follows: Charles P., aged 20 ; Ida Catherine, aged 18. 

€ourtland f^alvin Uan Deuscn 

SON OF John Calhoun Van Deusen and Helen Rachel Rossman. Born in 
the town of Claverack, Columbia County, N. Y., November 18, 1853. 
Attended the Hudson River Institute at Claverack, N. Y., in 1868-69, and com- 
pleted preparation for college at the Hudson Academy, 1870-72. He left college 
a year or two before graduation, read law in the offices of Newkirk and Chace, at 
Hudson, N. Y., and was admitted to the bar at the General Term of the Supreme 
Court, at Albany, N. Y., in November, 1879. He was index clerk in the Columbia 
County Clerk's office in 1881-1882, and clerk in New York State Insurance Depart- 
ment in 1882-1883. In 1883 he began the practice of law at Copake, N. Y., and 
in 1893 removed to Canaan Four Corners, N. Y., where he has since continued 
practice. He married Mary A. Van De Bogart of the Town of Canaan, N. Y. They 
have three children — two daughters aged 25 and 14 years respectively, and one 
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edward fieitry Duryce 




BORN IN Newark, N. J., 
December 4, 1857. Son 
of Peter Sharpe Duryee, for 
many years a trustee of Rut- 
gers, and" one of its warmest 
friends and benefactors. His 
mother was Susan Rankin, 
daughter of William Rankin, 
of Newark. He prepared for 
college at Lawrenceville, N. J., 
and entered the class as a 
Sophomore, in the autumn of 
1873. After graduation he be- 
gan the study of law, and 
entered the office of Field & 
Deyo, of New York. He re- 
ceived the degree of LL. B. 
from Columbia, and was ad- 
mitted to practice in New York 

in 1879. In 1881, he became an attorney, and in 1884, a counsellor in New 
Jersey, and entered into partnership with his brother under the lirm name of 
George S. & Edward H. Duryee. Since then he has practiced chiefly in New 
Jersey. He has the management of a number of large trust estates, and at the 
same time an extensive practice in the courts. 

He is a trustee of the Public Library of Newark, and has been its treas- 
urer since the organization of that institution. He was also Chairman of the 
Building Committee, under whose supervision has recently been erected a struc- 
ture which is said to be one of the largest and most complete, of its kind, in the 
United States. Such public service has appealed to him more strongly than the 
allurements of political life, for which he has apparently no special fondness, 
although often pressed to accept nominations to public office. He is described by 



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one who knows him well, as a hard-working and successful lawyer. He took 
great interest while in college in all college interests, and was President of the 
Targum Association and the Football Club. He was a member of the Phi Beta 
Kappa and Zeta Psi fraternities. He has never married. 



milliatti Budd 6illitiore 




B' 



lORN AT West Point, 
New York, November 
14, 1856. His parents were 
Captain (afterwards Major- 
General) Quincy A. Gillmore, 
U. S. A., and Mary Isabella 
Gillmore, daughter of Timothy 
O'Maher, who, for many years, 
was the Commissary Treasurer 
of the United States Military 
Academy. At an early age he 
attended the local day-school 
at West Point, designed for the 
instruction of the children of 
officers and professors. After 
two years' attendance there, he 
spent two years at the school 
of Major Henry C. Symonds, at 
Sing Sing. There he was pre- 
pared for his entrance examinations at Rutgers College, where he was matriculated 
in June, 1872. After graduation, he began studying law, with the firm of Gilchrist, 
McGill and Gillmore, in Jersey City, his brother (the late Edward D. Gillmore) 
being the junior partner, the other partners being the late Attorney-General Robert 
Gilchrist and Alexander T. McGill, who afterwards became distinguished as Prose- 



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cutor and County Judge of Hudson County, and as Chancellor of New Jersey for 
two terms. 

On being admitted to the bar in November, 1879, he formed a 
partnership with his brother, the firm being E. D. & W. B. Gillmore. In 1884, he 
began practice on his individual account, and has so continued to the present time. 
Besides his general practice, he has made a specialty of maritime law and has been 
engaged in a number of litigations which have attracted wide notice. Among 
these may be mentioned several actions to recover real estate held by erroneous and 
void titles, as well as the litigation which, for the first time in New Jersey, settled 
the legal rights of creditors in the proceeds of insurance policies on the life of a 
debtor. He has occasionally contributed papers to the legal press on subjects of 
professional interest, in 1892, he married Aimee Gerardin, of Jersey City, who 
died a year later. 



Renry Hilcs Jobnson 

SON OF Noble H. Johnson and Anna M. Niles. Born at Coeymans, N. Y., 
November, 1852. Prepared for college at the Coeymans Academy, under 
the tuition of Louis H. Bahler. After graduation, he began the study of medi- 
cine with the late Dr. F. G. Mosher, and received his diploma from the Albany 
Medical College in 188 1. He was afterwards engaged in the drug business in 
his native village, practising his profession at the same time. He was a member 
and officer of Onesquethau Lodge, F. and A. M., also a member of Irving Lodge, 
K. of P., Treasurer of the R. R. Engine Co., and Examining Physician of The 
Workingmen's Protective Union. He never married, but resided with his sister 
until his death, July 12, 1897. 

The following tribute is from the Coeymans Herald of July 14, 1897: 
"Dr. Johnson was a man of honor and strict integrity. * * * Truthfulness in 
all relations and conscientiousness were in him marked features. As a physician, 
he was ever ready to respond with cheerfulness to all demands made upon his 
professional skill. The sick, whether in homes of plenty or want, received from 
him patient care and faithful service. He befriended the unfortunate in the liberal 



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spirit of the Good Samaritan. Of modest and agreeable demeanor, his presence 
was ever welcome in the sici< room, and the success of his ministrations is attested 
by a multitude of sorrowing patients. His brother physician in this place, 
Dr. A. T. Powell, who faithfully attended him during his brief illness, speaks 
of him as a true-hearted, whole-souled man. honest and upright, an earnest 
pathologist, and a successful practitioner." 

Colburn, who was more intimate with him than any other member of 
the class, writes: "Probably no one ever knew the sterling worth and true 
nobility of his character so well as 1 did, because for years we were closer in 
our relation than many brothers. There was an undercurrent of humor in his 
life, hidden by such an air of diffidence, that many thought him proud or cynical. 
The modest retirement of such a character is rarely appreciated. But underneath 
the shell of his modesty there was strength, brilliancy, sturdy common sense, 
and a light-hearted, sunny disposition. His life was gentle, and the elements so 
mixed in him, that Nature might stand up and say to all the world, ' This was a 
man!' " 

l)aydn ClarKe Hellv 

SON OF Elijah Kelly, a prominent manuf.icturer of New Brunswick, N. J. 
Born in New Brunswick in 1855. Prepared for college at the Rutgers Gram- 
mar School. Studied law at the Yale Law School, New Haven, Conn., and gradu- 
ated with distinction in 1879. For a number of years he was engaged in the 
practice of his profession, in New York City, but subsequently removed to New 
Brunswick, where he still resides. He is unmarried. 



nagatern Vasujiro Outska (UtsuKa) 

HE WAS a native of Japan, and is pleasantly remembered as a diligent 
student, modest in demeanor, and gifted with all the courtesy and urbanity 
characteristic of his race. He did not remain long in college, and it has been 
found impracticable to learn anything of his subsequent career. 



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6eorge Ulilliam Huebnie 

BORN IN New York, 
November 2}, i8s5, of 
German parentage; moved to 
Atlantic County, N. J., in 1858. 
He was educated in private and 
public schools, and graduated 
from Northwest Boys' Gram- 
mar School, Philadelphia. 

In 1877, he was employed 
as Division Engineer on con- 
struction, by the Philadelphia 
and Atlantic City Railway. In 

1878, he became Assistant En- 
gineer on location, on the Port- 
land and Bangor Railroad. In 

1879, he received an appoint- 
ment as civil assistant in Corps 
of Engineers, U. S. A., in New 
York, under General John New- 
ton, and has since continued in that employment. During that time he has had 
charge of the works at Hell Gate, improvement of entrance to New York Harbor, 
and construction of fortifications for the defense of New York. He received the 
highest rank and pay in the department in 1889, at the age of 34 years, on account 
of faithful and meritorious services. He is, at present, Assistant Engineer in charge 
of the construction of fortifications at Fort Hamilton, N. Y. 

On October 11, 1879, he married Bertha Luella Pratt, of New Brunswick, 
N. J. Children: William L., born in New York, March i, 188 1 ; Rutgers class of 
1902. George P., born in New York, November 8, 1882; Rutgers Preparatory 
School, iQOi. Bertha L., born in New York, December 3, 1884; Rutgers Prepar- 
atory School, 1902. Lester W., born in New York, November 20, 1887; died May 
1, 1889. Edwin P., born in New York, September 13, 1890. Gertrude W,, born 
in New York. March 1 1, 1892, 




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Charles JIbbott Cimcburner 



SON of Captain Joseph Lime- 
burner, and Maria Potter, 
was born on board the clipper 
ship Samuel Russell, of which 
his father was, at the time, in 
command, November i8, 1854. 
The following interesting ex- 
tract, is from the log of the ves- 
sel, now in possession of Dr. 
Limeburner: "Ship Samuel 
Russell, from Foo Chow, to- 
wards New York, 1854, Sat- 
urday, November 18. All this 
24 hours, fine breeze from the 
N. E. and fine weather. All 
sails set. At4 A.M., Lat. 1 5.|>8, 
Long. 53.08. At 5 o'clock and 
45 minutes in the morning, 
Charles Abbott Limeburner, 
born on board Ship S. Russell, on passage from Foo Chow foo, 86 days out." He 
is the only member of the class, so far as known, whose birth has been recorded 
with anything like mathematical accuracy. As to his ancestry, his father was of 
Scotch descent, although born in Maine, and his mother was of pre-Revolutionary 
Hudson River Dutch stock. He prepared for college at the New Paltz Academy, 
New Paltz, N. Y., and after his graduation from Rutgers in 1876, entered the Col- 
lege of Physicians and Surgeons, — the medical department of Columbia University, 
New York, — from which he received the degree of M. D. in 1879. For eighteen 
months, he practiced medicine in Brooklyn, and in 1880, moved to Jersey City, 
where he is still located, and where also he has built up an extensive practice. He 
is a Freemason, of high degree, and prominently identified with a number of local 
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Hospital, and has been Medical Examiner for several Life Insurance Companies. 
The demands of his private practice, however, have become sa urgent, that he has 
been compelled, of late, to withdraw from all outside business and give his atten- 
tion wholly to it. 

He married Evelyn Frances Edwards, of Brooklyn, in 1884. They have no 
children. 

John Edward Cyan 

SON OF the Rev. William Lyall. His parents were from Scotland, where 
his father was an attendant upon the lectures of the celebrated Dr. Thomas 
Chalmers. He came to America about 1835, and subsequently entered the 
ministry of the Reformed Church. For a number of years he was located in 
Columbia Co., N. Y., where, in the village of Copake, the subject of this sketch 
was born, December 21, 1S52. He received his college preparatory training at the 
Hudson Academy, N. Y. After his graduation from Rutgers, he enteied the 
Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, and completed his course there, in 1879. 
He was licensed to preach by the Classis of Hudson, June sth of the same year. 
Shortly afterwards, he was ordained by the Classis of New Brunswick, and 
became pastor of the Reformed Church of Bound Brook, N.J. In 1881, he received 
and accepted a call from the church at Millbrook, N. Y., succeeding the Rev. 
Henry N. Cobb, D. D., Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed 
Church. This charge he still retains, after a continuous and faithful service of 
twenty years. It is the longest pastorate, thus far, in the experience of any of 
the clerical members of the class. For five years, he represented the Classis of 
Poughkeepsie in the Board of Superintendents of the Theological Seininary, and 
for twelve years, he has been a member of the Executive Committee, and Treasurer 
of the Dutchess County Sunday School Association. He has also served as 
Vice-President of the Rutgers Alumni Association. His publications have con- 
sisted of occasional articles in the local papers, and a sermon on Prayer. He was 
married December 7, 1 881, to Sophie Voorhees, daughter of former Sheriff Garret 
G. Voorhees, of New Brunswick. Six children, two sons and four daughters, 
have been born to them, all of whom are living. 



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Peter Rouston IHiHiRen 




BORN AUGUST 31, 1831, in the town of Crawfoid, Orange County. N. Y. 
From his earliest recollection he attended the district school. At the age of 
sixteen, having a desire for other occupation than farming, he taught school a term, 
and then entered the academy at Newburgh, N. Y. The next year he again taught 
until the accumulation of the necessary means enabled him to enter the State 
Normal School at Albany, N. Y., and after spending two years in that institution, 
the way was opened for a college course. After a year's study under the direction 
of the Rev. Jeremiah Searle, then of Peekskill. N. Y., he entered Rutgers College 
in 1872, and graduated with the class in 1876. His theological education was 



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received in the seminary at New Brunswick, from which he graduated in 1879. 
He was licensed to preach and ordained by the Classis of Orange and installed 
pastor of Berea Church, Walden, N. Y., October 28, 1879. In 1882, he became 
pastor of the Second Reformed Church of Totowa, Paterson, N. J. During 1887, 
he entered a post-graduate course of study in the University of the City of New 
York, from which in 1889, he received the degree of Ph. D. In January of the 
same year, he was installed pastor of the First Reformed Church of Philadelphia, 
Pa., succeeding, in that charge, his classmate, the Rev. William R. Taylor, D. D. 
In 1899 he received the degree of D. D. from his alma mater. 

In addition to his parish work his labors in behalf of the denomination to 
which he belongs have been abundant. He has long been active and influential in 
the councils of the Reformed Church, by which he has been honored with numerous 
positions of responsibility and trust. He has represented his classis in the Board 
of Superintendents of the Theological Seminary, and has twice been nominated by 
that body to a professorship in the seininary. He has been President of its Alumni 
Association, and is at present actively and efficiently interested in the movement to 
increase its endowment. In June, 1900, he was elected Vice-President of the Gen- 
eral Synod of the Reformed Church, and for a number of years has been a promi- 
nent member of its Board of Domestic Missions. 

He is an occasional contributor to the columns of The Christian Intelligencer. 

On August 17, 1881, he married Adelaide Louise Thomson, of Corning, 
N. Y. Their children are: Conrad Orton, and Margaretta Searle, the former of whom 
became an alumnus of Rutgers at the last commencement. 



edwitt 6. Colburn 

SON OF Edwin S. Colburn and Jane E. Van Slyke. Born at New Balti- 
more, N. Y., June 4, 1854. Prepared for college at Coeymans Academy, 
Coeymans, N. Y. He left college in February, 1875, and engaged for a time in 
farming, but for many years has been in business in Albany, N. Y., where he still 
resides. He married Mary M. Beach. September 4, 1878. They have two daughters, 
Elizabeth V., born April 12, 1880, and Mary B., born July 3, 1885. 



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Jllbm Dod minor 



SON OF the Rev. John 
Minor, of the class of 
1842, and Mary B. Dod, sister 
of the Rev. Albert B. Dod, 
formerly Professor of Mathe- 
matics in Princeton College. 

Born inCenterville, Mich., 
January 12, 1850. His early 
education vv'as conducted by 
his parents. He spent two 
terms in Charlton Academy, 
Charlton, N. Y., but prepared 
for college without regular as- 
sistance, and mainly by his 
own efforts. He entered Rut- 
gers as a Freshman with the 
class of '73. For three years 
his college course was inter- 
rupted on account of ill health. 
In 1875, he returned to New Brunswick and graduated in the following year with 
the class of '76. 

After graduation, a year and a half was spent as an instructor in the Newark 
Academy, Newark, N. J., which position he resigned on account of a serious acci- 
dent which made him, for a time, an invalid. He studied theology, privately, and 
in 1879, was licensed and ordained by the Classis of Montgomery, and installed 
pastor of the Reformed Church of St. Johnsville, N. Y. In 1888, he became pastor 
of the Reformed Churches of Mohawk and Fort Herkimer, N. Y. He resigned the 
former charge in 1891, and the latter in 189^, owing to ill health. 

In 1898, he was commissioned Chaplain of the 203d Regiment, New York 
Volunteers, and served in the army until the close of the Spanish-American War in 
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He is, at present, a minister of the Reformed Church in America, and a 
Captain in the National Guard of the State of New York. His publications consist 
of occasional articles contributed to the local papers, to The Christian Intelligencer, 
and The Independent, of New York. 

He married Isabelle Hammil Randolph, daughter of Judge Bennington F. 
Randolph, of Jersey City, N. J., December 22, 1886. They have one child — a 
daughter — now in the thirteenth year of her age. 




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milliatti liosea na$bold$ 



B' 



lORN AT Knox, Albany 
County, N. Y., Febru- 
ary 22, 1851. His father was 
of German, and his mother of 
Hollandish descent. His early 
life was spent mostly on the 
farm. In 1870, he entered the 
Rutgers Grammar School, 
where he received his prepa- 
ration for college. After grad- 
uation in 1876, he entered the 
Theological Seminary at New 
Brunswick, completing his 
studies there in 1879. He was 
ordained the same year, by the 
Classis of Albany, and after- 
wards installed by the Classis 
of Paramus as pastor of the 
Reformed Church of Ramapo, 
N. J. In 1880, he accepted a call to the Reformed Church of Geneva, N. Y., where 
he remained until 1882. He was pastor of the Reformed Church of Farmer, N. Y., 
from 1882 until 1887, and of the church at Schodack Landing, N. Y., from 1887 to 
1891. In November, 1891, he accepted a call to the First Reformed Church of 
Bethlehem, N. Y., where he is still laboring. 

In July, 1879, he married Edith Crary, of Knox, N. Y. 




Rowland l)en$ball $tubb$ 

SON OF the Rev. Dr. Stubbs, for many years rector of Christ Church, in 
New Brunswick. He left college early in the course, and is now a practicing 
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George Cutbcr ncvius 



SON OF Manning L. Nevius. 
Born at New Brunswick, 
N. J. He prepared for college 
at the Rutgers Grammar 
School. After graduating from 
Rutgers he entered the law de- 
partment of Columbia Univer- 
sity, New York, from which 
he received his diploma in 
1880, and with it the degree 
of LL. B. He was admitted 
to practice before the Supreme 
Court of New Jersey at Tren- 
ton, in 1881. He remained in 
New Brunswick only for a 
short time, then, in 1882, re- 
moved to Minnesota and set- 
1 1 e d at Wadena, Wadena 
County, in that State. He was 

soon afterwards admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Minnesota, and 
from 1883 to 1886 held the offices of Judge and Court Commissioner. He then 
removed to Minneapolis, and has been a member of the bar of Hennepin County 
for the past fifteen years. He is married. 




Cbomas IHorrell IHoore 



HE REMAINED in college only a year or two after entering with the class, and 
has since been engaged in business pursuits. His home at present, is in 
Buffalo, N. Y., where he recently held the position of Superintendent of the 
Machinery Division of the Pan-American Exposition. 



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Carlton Browncll Pierce 




B 



OR.N AT Trenton, 
N. J., June 22, 1857. 
Son of Henry B. Pierce and 
Catherine M. Brownell. He 
was prepared for college at the 
New Brunswick High School, 
of which his father was at the 
time, and for a number of 
years, the efficient principal. 
He pursued the scientific 
course at Rutgers, graduating 
with the degree of B. S. He 
afterwards entered the Albany 
Law School, from which he 
received his diploma in 1878. 
He began the practice of law 
at Cooperstown, N. Y., where 
he remained until 1892. Since 
that time he has been in suc- 
cessful practice in the city of New York, and is a member of the law firm of Car- 
rington & Pierce. His home is at Cranford, N. J. 

He was married September 15, 1885, to Annie Prentiss Browning, of 
Cooperstown, N. Y., recently deceased. They have had four children, three 
daughters and a son, all of whom are living. 



edwiit forrest Ross 

SON OF the Hon. Miles Ross, of New Brunswick. He belonged to the 
Scientific section of the class and was one of the best all-round athletes of the 
college in his day; a prominent member of the Base Ball and Foot Ball teams. 
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Olilliam l)orton Price 



SON OF Henry M. Price, a 
New Brunswick merchant. 
Born in New Brunswick, July 9, 
1855. Prepared for college at 
Hasbrouck Institute, Jersey 
City, N. J. Studied law with 
Collins & Corbin, of Jersey 
City, and was admitted to 
practice in June, 1879. After 
two years of professional work 
in Jersey City, he returned to 
New Brunswick, and in 188 1 
became a partner in the firm of 
Henry M. Price's Sons, with 
which firm he is still con- 
nected. In 1884 he was elected 
a member of the Board of 
Aldermen of New Brunswick, 
and again in 1886. He was 

President of the Board for three years. In i88s he was made Deputy Collector of 
Internal Revenue for the Third District of New Jersey, and served for two years. 
in 1887 he was appointed Postmaster of New Brunswick by President Cleveland, 
and continued in the office until 1892. In 1899, he was elected, for the third time, 
a member of the Board of Aldermen without opposition, a circumstance which is 
said to be without precedent in the municipal history of New Brunswick. He has 
never married. 




William l)ubert Osborne 

WAS A MEMBER of the Scientific section of the class. He left college a year 
or two before graduation. It has been found impracticable to ascertain 
his present address, or employment. 



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lobn DuTfield Prince, % 



SON OF John D. Prince 
and Gertrude Martense, 
was born in the town of Flat- 
bush, now the Borough of 
Brooklyn, New York, August 
2), 1856. He received his 
early education at Erasmus 
Hall Academy at Flatbush, and 
spent the last year at school 
prior to entering college at 
the Rutgers Grammar School. 
After leaving college, he at- 
-«.«»«»»»_». ^«H_BHH». tended the Columbia Law 

^- ^^^■^^^H^ %/^^BF School in New York City, and 

graduated in 1878, receiving 
from Columbia the degree of 
LL. B. Since that time he has 
practiced law in the city of 
Brooklyn and vicinity. Pros- 
perous in business and happy in his domestic life, he has pursued the even 
tenor of his way, with no ambition for public honor or preferment, but content 
with the quiet joys of home. On January 1 3, 1887, he married Mary Martense of 
Flatbush. They have two children, viz. : a girl of twelve and a boy ten years of 
age. 




Tsaac Denttian Uanderpoel 



REMAINED in college until the end of the Junior year. Since that time, it is 
understood that he has been engaged in business. No information regarding 
him, however, has been received. 



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li)\mm mvckoff Scbomp 



SON OF David G. Schomp. 
Born at Bedminster, 
Somerset County, N. J., Nov- 
ember 13, 1 85 1. After leav- 
ing the public school, he 
spent two years in a private 
school, and then entered the 
Rev. William Cornell's Classi- 
cal Institute, at Somerville, 
N. J., where he devoted two 
years more to special prepara- 
tion for college. In 1876, hav- 
ing completed his collegiate 
education, he entered the Theo- 
logical Seminary at New 
Brunswick, from which he 
graduated three years' later. 
His first settlement was at 
Glenham, Dutchess County. 
N. Y.. where he began^ his 

ministry. November 18. 1879. 'n '88=' he became pastor of 
Churches of Marbletown and North Marbletown, Ulster County, 
field he labored successfully for more than seven years. Then, in 1893. he re- 
ceived and accepted a unanimous call to the First Reformed Church of Athens. 
Greene County, N. Y. While pleasantly at work there his services were sought 
by the Reformed Church of Walden, Orange County. N. Y.. and in response to an 
urgent call he became pastor of that church in September. 1807. There he remains, 
the happy and appreciated minister of a large and growing congregation. He is a 
member of the Holland Society of New York. 

His publications consist of a " History of the Marbletown Reformed Church," 
covering a period of 150 years, and a patriotic sermon preached in celebration of 
Independence Day, 1900. 

He was married April 22. 1880, to Marv Eleanor Schott, of Somerville. N.J. 
They have two children, a daughter aged 19 and a son aged 12. 




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lames J1udu$tu$ Romeyit 

THE FOLLOWING sketch, prepared by Judge W. S. Banta, of New Jersey, 
is taken from the History of Bergen County, published by The New Jersey 
Publishing and Engraving Company, of New York, 1900. 

" The subject of this sketch was born at Blawenburgh, Somerset County, 
New Jersey, 18^3. He is the only son of Rev. Theodore Bayard Romeyn, D. D., 



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and Amelia (Letson) Romeyn. His mother was the daughter of Johnson Letson 
and Eliza Shaddle, of New Brunswick, N. J. Mr. Letson was a trustee of Rut- 
gers College and a liberal contributor to its support and endowment. Dr. and 
Mrs. Romeyn settled at Blawenburgh in 1850, where James A. attended the public 
school until 1865, when his father was settled as pastor of the First Reformed 
Church at Hackensack, N. J., the "Old Church on the Green." He was prepared 
for college at the academy at Lawrenceville, N. J., and at the Rutgers Grammar 
School at New Brunswick. In 1872, he entered Rutgers College, and was gradu- 
ated in 1876. He entered the law office of Bedle, Muirheid & McGee in Jersey 
City in 1876, took a course of study at Columbia Law School, and was admitted 
to practice law at the New Jersey State Bar in 1879. He practiced law in Jersey 
City until 1890, part of which time he was a partner in the firm of Romeyn & 
Griffin. The practice of law becoming distasteful to him, he abandoned it in 1890. 

"In 1894, he became editor of the Evening Record, an independent daily 
newspaper, published in Hackensack, the only daily in Bergen County. He 
entered upon the work of journalism as he would upon one of the high professions 
with a firm conviction that it was equal to, if not of more importance than, the 
profession of theology, law or medicine. He has continued this work with great 
energy and success until his paper has become an important vehicle of news and 
thought and a necessary institution of the city. 

" His whole thought and discussions have been on the side of good morals 
and the public welfare. No questionable paragraphs have ever found place in the 
columns of his paper. His has been a successful effort to make the Evening 
Record one of the most influential papers in this locality, and with a flattering 
circulation, he has made an enviable reputation throughout the whole State." 

On October 22, 1901, he sold out his entire interest in the Evening 
Record, having developed it from a small affair into an enterprise of value. 

He has never taken any active part in politics, though his political principles 
are positive and fixed. He has been called to fill places in local boards, and was 
treasurer of the Hackensack Hospital for seven years. He married Flora N. 
Cochran, of Lancaster, Pa., in 1884, who died in 1891. From his marriage he has 
two children, Theodore Bayard and Katharine Cochran. In 1894, he married 
Susie B. Conover, of Newark, N. ]. 



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Bergen BroKau $mt$ 




S 



'ON OF Peter Staats and Susanna S. 
Quick. Born at Fair Hill, Cecil County, 
Maryland, April 15, 1853. Though born in 
Maryland, he comes of old Somerset County 
Dutch stock. His education, preparatory to 
entering college, was received primarily in the 
public schools of Somerset County, N. J. He 
afterwards spent a year in a private class, and 
two years in the Rutgers Grammar School. 
His professional training was received in the 
New Brunswick Theological Seminary, from 
which he graduated in 1879. His first charge 
was at West Hurley, Ulster County, N. Y., 
1879-1882. In 1882 he removed to Coxsackie, 
and was pastor of the First Reformed Church of that place until 1890, when he 
received and accepted a call to the Helderberg Church, Guilderland Center, a 
pleasant village, not far from the city of Albany. In July, 1896, he was prostrated 
by a severe illness, and for a time appeared to be almost at death's door. After 
many months of weakness and suffering, he was able at length, to resume his 
ministerial work, and in October, 1897, entered upon his fourth and present pas- 
torate, at Long Branch, N. J., where he is doing a quiet but efficient work. 

He was President of the Particular Synod of Albany in 1896, and also served 
for a number of years, as Chairman of General Synod's Permanent Committee on 
Sunday Schools and Catechetical Instruction. 

He is an occasional contributor to the local and religious press, and has 
written several poems of decided merit. 

On December 24, 1879, he married Sarah V. Cornell of East Millstone, N. J. 
They have three children living — one deceased. The oldest, 20 years, is now a 
Sophomore at Rutgers. The second, a daughter, is 19 years old; the third, a son, 
is 17 years old. 



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Paul Trcaerick Sutpben 



SON OF Ten Eyck Sut- 
phen, a well-known 
business man, for many years, 
in the city of Brooklyn. Born 
in Brooklyn, N. Y., January 
\^, 1856. Prepared for col- 
lege at the Rutgers Grammar 
School. His theological edu- 
cation was received at Union 
Seminary, in New York. In 
1879, he was ordained to the 
gospel ministry, and became 
pastor of the Lutheran Church 
at Valatie, N. Y., where he 
remained until 1881. Ill health 
compelling him to seek a 
change of climate, he spent 
one year in the west, chiefly 
in Minnesota. in 1882, he 
received and accepted a call to the Third Presbyterian Church, of Elizabeth, N. J., 
to which he ministered with growing power until 1886. From 1886 to 1892, he 
was pastor of the Woodland Avenue Presbyterian Church, of Cleveland, Ohio. 
During his ministry there, he had the happiness of receiving nearly a thousand per- 
sons into the fellowship of the church. The work of the Sunday School also took 
on large proportions, and a costly building was erected for its use, which is said 
to be one of the finest of its kind in the United States. From Cleveland he went 
to Newark, N. J., in 1892, and for two years was pastor of the Second Presbyterian 
Church of that city. In 1894 he was urged to accept a call to the Oxford Presby- 
terian Church of Philadelphia, which he did, remaining, however, but one year, 
when the Second Presbyterian Church of Cleveland invited him to become its 
pastor, and as a result of the strong pressure that was brought to bear upon him, 




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he was induced to return to that city. His church is one of the strongest numeri- 
cally, socially and tlnancially, in Cleveland, and its pastor, according to the testi- 
mony of competent and unprejudiced witnesses, not identified with class of '76, 
stands in the front rank of the Presbyterian clergy. He has frequently been called 
to prominent churches in New York, Brooklyn, Chicago, and elsewhere, but up 
to this time remains in the city to which more than half of his entire ministry has 
been given. 

Some years ago, he received from Rutgers the honorary degree of D. D. 

He is married and has four children, three girls, and a boy of eighteen. His 
oldest daughtergraduated last June from Miss Dana's School at Morristown,N. J. The 
two younger girls are thirteen and eight years old, respectively. His son, now 
nearly ready for college, will probably enter Cornell. 




David murray 

ON LEAVING college, he began the study of law. 
After being admitted to the bar, he practiced for 
a time at Binghamton, N. Y. For a number of years 
past, however, his home and business have been in the 
city of New York. He is a member of the Association of 
the Bar and of the University Club of New York. He 
has never held or been a candidate for public office, but 
was chairman of the Civil Service Commission at Bing- 
hamton for about three years. He is married. 



Cbeodore l>avelock (Ualser 

BORN ON Staten island. Son of Theodore Walser, M. D. He was one 
of the youngest members of the class, a brilliant student, and a young man 
of rare promise. He graduated with high honors, and immediately after com- 
pleting his college course began the study of law in the city of New York. Death 
soon claimed him, however, and before he had fairly entered upon his career his 
days were numbered. 



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milliatti Rivers Caylor 

BORN IN Philadelphia, 
September 28, 1856. Son 
of the Rev. William J. R. Tay- 
lor, D. D., of the class of 1841. 
His father, his grandfather — the 
Rev. Benj. C. Taylor, D. D.— 
and his great-grandfather, the 
Rev. J. V. C. Romeyn, D. D., 
were all trustees of Rutgers. 

He received his college pre- 
paratory training at the Rut- 
gers Grammar School, the 
Newark Academy, and under 
the private instruction of Louis 
H. Biihler, A. M., of the Class of 
1861. He graduated at the 
head of his class in 1876, and 
entered the Theological Sem- 
inary at New Brunswick in 

the autumn of the same year, graduating from that institution in 1879. His 
pastorates have been as follows: Reformed Dutch Church, Franklin Park, N. J., 
1879-1884. First Reformed Church, Philadelphia, 1884-1888. Brick Presbyterian 
Church, Rochester, since 1888. In 1891, he received the degree of D. D. from 
Rochester University, and in 1894, was chosen President of the New York State 
Young Peoples' Society of Christian Endeavor. He is a Trustee of Reynolds' 
Library, in Rochester, and prominently identified with other philanthropic, 
educational and benevolent institutions. 

As a public speaker he is in frequent demand, and has delivered numerous 
addresses on special occasions before colleges and at religious gatherings. He was 
the alumni orator at Rutgers in 1896. The church to which he ministers in 
Rochester, is one of the largest and most important in the Presbyterian body, and 
has a membership of something like two thousand souls. During the current 




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year, he was invited to become pastor of the Rutgers Riverside Presbyterian 
Church, in the city of New York, but preferred to remain in his present charge, 
and the call was, therefore, decHned. 

In the intervals of public duty he has traveled extensively in Europe, first 
making a general tour in 1884. In 1898, he visited Norway and Spitzbergen, and 
Italy in 1899- 1900. 

His publications consist of occasional sermons, addresses, etc. 

He married Annie B. Spear, daughter of James Spear, Esq., of Philadelphia, 
January 24, 1888. They have two daughters, eleven and nine years of age, and 
two sons, seven and five years old. 




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foster mcGowan Uoorbces 



SON OF Nathaniel W. Voorhees, of the class of 1847. Born at Clinton, 
N. J., November s, i8s5. Prepared for college under private tutors. Studied 
law at Elizabeth, N. J., with Magie and Cross, the former, for a number of years. 
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and now Chancellor of New Jersey, the latter, 
a Judge, and at one time Speaker of the House, and at present a Senator. He was 
admitted to the practice of law in 1880. In 1888, he became a member of the 
House of Assembly and was re-elected in 1889 and 1890. In 1894, he was chosen 
State Senator, and continued to serve in that capacity until 1897. During that year 



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he was made President of the Senate, and on the retirement of Governor John W. 
Griggs, who resigned his office to accept the position of United States Attorney 
General, he became Acting Governor, and continued as such, during 1898. In the 
following year, he was elected Governor by popular vote, which office he continues 
to hold. 

For many years, he has been a prominent member of the bar and a recog- 
nized leader, in the State, of the Republican party, which he has repeatedly repre- 
sented in its local and national councils. Several years ago, he was nominated a 
Judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, by Governor Werts, but declined the 
appointment, preferring, at the time, a more active political career. He is still in the 
hey-day of his popularity and usefulness, and his name is prominently mentioned 
in connection with other honors, when he shall have completed his term of service 
as Governor of New Jersey. His modesty does not permit him to speak of his 
public services, or of the numerous articles and addresses which have appeared 
from time to time in the public press, but as these are widely known and read, 
they speak for themselves. He graduated second in his class in college, but has 
attained easily the first place in point of prominence in the larger sphere of life. 
He has never married. 



3obn Eltot moodbridge 

SON OF the Rev. John Woodbridge, D. D., and Mary Lavinia Mersereau. 
Born August 14, 1856, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., where he received his 
preparation for college. After spending two years at Rutgers, he entered Union 
College, Schnectady, N. Y., and graduated in 1876. He studied theology at Union 
Theological Seminary, New York City, but left in the middle of the second year. 
For three years he had charge of a mission chapel connected with the First Presby- 
terian Church of Paterson, N. J. He also taught for a time in the New York Latin 
School, and partially worked out a scheme for a Greek Grammar, which he was 
asked to present to the Greek Club of New York, in 1878, he went to Europe in 
search of health, made a losing fight for months, with tuberculosis, and died Octo- 
ber 3, 1879. He was unmarried. 



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3obn Scbenck Uoorbees 

SON OF the late John S. Voorhees and grandson of Judge Peter Voorhees. 
Born near FrankUn Piirk, Middlesex County, N. J., November 30, 
1855. He spent one year under a private tutor and two years at the Rutgers 
Grammar School in preparation for college. After graduation, he entered the office 
of his uncle, Frederick Voorhees, Esq., of Mt. Holly, Burlington County, N. J., 



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with whom he spent three years in the study of law. He was admitted as an 
attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey at the June term, 1879. In October 
of the same year, he settled as a lawyer at New Brunswick, N. J., and in 1882, was 
admitted as a counsellor by the New Jersey Supreme Court, and by the United 
States Supreme Court, October 29, 1885. He has since been appointed Special 
Master in Chancery and Supreme Court Commissioner. In 1896, he was appointed 
Prosecutor of the Pleas for Middlesex County by Governor Griggs, for the term of 
five years, and in 1901, was reappointed to the same position by his classmate, 
Governor Voorhees. He is a Trustee of the New Jersey Bar Association, a mem- 
ber of the Standing Committee of the Rutgers Alumni Association, a Director of 
the People's National Bank of New Brunswick, a member of the patriotic order 
of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the State Executive Committee of the 
Young Men's Christian Association of New Jersey, and an Elder in the Second 
Reformed Church, of New Brunswick. He is also a Director in several business, 
charitable and religious associations. He was married October 21, 1886, to Mary 
H. Stebbins, only daughter of the late John R. Stebbins, of Rondout, N. Y. They 
have three children, viz. : 

Tracy Stebbins Voorhees, born June 30, 1890. 

John Schenck Voorhees, Jr., born February 20, 1895. 

Frederick Voorhees, born December 30, 1894. 



TranK !Jarvi$ IHunay 

AT THE TIME of entering college, Mundy was a preacher of the Methodist 
Church, and had charge of the congregation worshiping then in Liberty 
Street, New Brunswick. He remained in the class but a short time, a year or two 
at the most, and later changed his ecclesiastical connection, and entered the Theo- 
logical Seminary at Princeton, N. J. He was pastor for some years, of a Con- 
gregational church in Massachusetts, and afterwards of a Presbyterian church in 
Philadelphia. He is now in charge of a church of the same denomination in 
Atlantic City, N. J. He has gained some distinction as a preacher, and the alumni 
catalogue of Rutgers credits him with the degrees of A. M. and D. D. 



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Harry (UestbrooK minfleld 




Ky^ 




BORN JANUARY 4, 1857, at Washington Square, 
Jersey City, N. J. He was tlie only child of 
Hon. Charles Hardenburgh Winfield, of the class of 
1832, and Harriet McDougall Allan. The blood 
that flows in his veins is a mixture of English, Hol- 
land and Highland Scotch. He traces his descent 
from Richard Winfield, of Derby, England, who 
was descended from Anthony Wingfield, trustee 
under the will of King Henry Vlll. His Holland 
blood, on his father's side, is from the De Roosa. 
Quick and Kortrecht families, and on his mother's 

side, from the Yates and Bradt f^imilies. His Scotch blood he derives from his 
mother through the McDougalls of Argyle and the Allans of Perth. His early 
education was received as follows: Burlington College, N. J., 1867-68; Rev. S. 
A. Farrand, New York City, 1869-70; Rutgers Grammar School, 1871-72. After 
graduation from college, he spent two years in the Columbia College Law School, 
from which he was graduated in 1879 with the degree of LL. B. He was admitted 
to the bar of New Jersey the same year as an attorney, and as counsellor at the 
June term, 1882. From 1879 to 1883 he was in partnership with his father, and 
remained in general practice until 1887, when he was appointed Counsel to the 
Hudson County Board of Health, which position he held until 1899, when he 
resigned. The following are some of the results achieved during the twelve years 
of his incumbency of that office: The death rate in Hudson County was 
reduced four per thousand, principally in diseases due to defective sanitation; the 
building and equipping of a complete hospital for contagious diseases was effected; 
the abolition of a fraudulent medical college was brought about and its charter 
revoked; the registration of vital statistics in Hudson County was placed on a com- 
plete and comprehensive basis, and legislation was secured regulating medical 
practice, and effecting needed and important sanitary reforms. 

Since his resignation as counsel to the Board of Health, he has been in gen- 
eral practice, and has taken care of his private interests. He has never married. 



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3obn Cefferts, 3r. 




B' 



lORN AT Flatbush, Long Island, on 
the first day of March, 1854, when 
Flatbush was still a rural village and had 
not become a part of Brooklyn or, as later 
a part of the Greater New York. His 
parentage was Dutch, the Lefferts family 
being one of the oldest Dutchfamilies in the 
county. John Lefferts, his father, was a 
well-known resident of the old town, and 
the deed of the homestead of the subject 
of this sketch, where he was born, signed 
by Peter Stuyvesant, the famous Dutch 
Governor of New Amsterdam, was a 
patent directly to a Lefferts and has hung 
upon the walls of the home for over two 
centuries. His mother died when he 
was but a boy. His early education was 
received at Erasmus Hall Academy, in Flatbush, a celebrated old school, over 
which the late Rev. Dr. William H. Campbell, the learned anci beloved President 
of Rutgers College, presided for many years. Fie prepared for college at the 
Rutgers Grammar School, and left for Columbia College Law School in New York 
at the end of his Sophomore year, graduating from the latter with the degree of 
LL. B. in 1876. While in college, he organized, with the cordial co-operation of the 
class, the Rutgers Glee Club, which was a pronounced success from the beginning, 
and has become a permanent institution. In this undertaking he received valuable 
assistance from Howard N. Fuller, of the class of 1874, author of "On the Banks 
of the Old Raritan," and Alexander Johnston, of the class of 1870, then of the 
Grammar School and afterwards, a professor at Princeton College. Since 1876, he 
has been continuously engaged in the active practice of his profession and has been 
associated in the law business, for many years, with Joseph W. Sutphen, a member 
of the class of 1873, of Rutgers, under the firm name of Sutphen and Lefferts. He 



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is ;i Republican in politics and has been prominent in the Brooklyn Young Repub- 
lican Club as well as in other social clubs and organizations of the city in which he 
resides. He is a director in several corporations and executor and legal adviser of 
some of the largest estates in the city of New York. In June, 1876, he married 
Mary J. Gray, of Brooklyn. They have no children. 



Ca Rue Uredenburgb, 3r. 

SON OF La Rue Vreden- 
burgh, and B Ian din a 
Elmendorf. Born at Somer- 
ville, N. J., July iq, 1855. He 
was fitted for college at the 
preparatory school of the Rev. 
William Cornell, at Somerville. 
He left college before complet- 
ing the course, and studied law 
with Judge John D. Bartine, of 
Somerville. In 1879, he was 
admitted to the bar of New 
Jersey, and the same year, to 
the bar of Colorado. He com- 
menced active practice at Chi- 
huahua, Colorado, in partner- 
ship with Thomas A. Jobs, of 
Newark, N. J., and upon the 
failure of the boom there, re- 
moved to Montezuma, where he became associated in partnership with Hon. 
Thomas Mitchell, whose term as Justice of the United States District Court was 
about to expire. He enjoyed a successful practice until the diminishing value of 
silver caused the closing of many mines and a general business depression. While 
on a visit east, at this time, the Somerset County Bank, at Somerville, sought his 
services, temporarily. The connection thus established proving mutually satisfac- 




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tory, he became teller in the bank, and continued to serve in that capacity until the 
institution passed into the hands of a receiver in the panic of 1893. The same day, 
he accepted employment as Discount Clerk and Note Teller in the First National 
Bank of the same place, where he remained until 1899, when the Commissioner of 
Banking and Insurance of the State of New Jersey tendered him the position of 
State Bank Examiner, which he still holds. He has never married. 



Ulillard talker Sutler 



B* 



lORN November3, 1856, at 
Morristown, Newjersey, 
Son of Hon. Augustus W. 
Cutler, M. C, and Julia R. 
Walker. He attended Miss 
Scofield's private school, and 
afterwards Morris Academy, 
and then Morristown High 
School. After a two years' 
course in the Scientific Depart- 
ment of the college, he studied 
law with his father in Morris- 
town. Upon being admitted 
to the bar, he opened an office 
in Morristown and began active 
practice. He took the coun- 
sellors' degree in due course. 
In December, 1882, he was ap- 
pointed Prosecutor of the Pleas, 
to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of George W. Forsyth. In January, 
1883, he was appointed Prosecutor for the full term of five years. In 1888, he was 
again appointed Prosecutor. In 1893, he was appointed Prosecutor for the fourth 
time, but resigned the same year to accept the position of County Judge. He filled 




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the office of Law Judge of Morris County from April i, 1893, to April i, 1898, 
since which time he has practiced law. 

He is President of the Board of Trustees of the South Street Presbyterian 
Church of Morristown; Second Vice-President of the Morristown Trust Company, 
also Vice-President of the Morris County Mortgage and Realty Company. In 1879, 
he married Mary B. Hinchman, of Brooklyn. They have six children. 



3o$epb Godfrey Palmer 

SON OF Joseph R.. Palmer, 
was born in Brownsville, 
Texas, March I, 1856. in 1861, , ,. 

his family moved to New York 
City. In 1870, he attended the 
North Orange Military Acad- 
emy, and subsequently the 
Rutgers Grammar School, 
where he completed his prep- 
aration for college. He became 
a member of the Class of '76, 
but left college to engage in 
business, a year or two before 
graduation. For two years he 
was employed by a wholesale 
jewelry firm in Chicago, and 
then, in 1878, became assistant 
mileage clerk in the office of 
the Chicago and Northwestern 

Railway, in 1880, he started in the real estate business at Grinneil, Iowa, and the 
same year, accepted a position as book-keeper with the Shoe and Leather Bank of 
New York City. Capitalists, to whom he became known, promised to entrust 
him with their money to invest in western land, and, in 1882, he again went to 
Iowa, started the Rockwell City Bank and was chosen president of the institution. 




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He also served one term as Town Treasurer, and as Mayor of Rockwell City. In 
1893, he was one of the incorporators of the Redfleld Quarrv Company, and was 
recently elected Vice-President of the Company. In 1882, he was appointed on 
the staff of Governor B. R. Sherman, of Iowa, and in i88q, became Secretary of 
the Calhoun County Democratic Central Committee. 

In 1892, he received his appointment as a member of the staff of Governor 
Boies. The Army and Navy Magaiine, to which we are chiefly indebted for the 
above information, has this to say also, with reference to our classmate: "No 
officer on Governor Boies' staff is more popular than Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph G. 
Palmer, owing to his uniform courtesy towards all with whom he comes in con- 
tact and also because of his ability as a soldier." 

In 1899, Colonel Palmer sold out his interest in the Rockwell City Bank, 
and shortly afterwards, removed to Colorado Springs, Col., where he now resides. 
He is interested in several of the gold mines at Cripple Creek, Col., and has 
achieved considerable success in this line of investments. He is a large stockholder 
in some of the most valuable mines near Colorado Springs. 

He married Annie Davis, of Grinnell, Iowa, in 1883. They have one 
daughter. 



Samuel Tsett (Uoodbridde 

SON OF the Rev. Jahleel Woodbridge. He left college, early in the 
course, and entered Princeton Theological Seminary, from which he was 
graduated. He was afterwards sent as a missionary to China, by the Southern 
Presbyterian Church, and is at present, stationed at Chinkiang, China. Has 
done valuable work in the way of translations from the Chinese Language, and 
has issued several publications. He was married in Yokohama, Japan, to Jean 
Woodrow, daughter of Dr. Woodrow of Columbia, South Carolina. They have 
seven children. 



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nicbolas Dorenius Ulortendyke 



SON OF THE Hon. Jacob 
R. Wortendyke, M. C, 
of the class of 1839, and Susan 
J. Doremus, was bom in 
Jersey City, September 14, 
1858. He was prepared for 
college at the Hasbrouck Insti- 
tute, Jersey City, graduating 
in 1872. The same year, he 
entered Rutgers, as a member 
of the scientific class, taking a 
two years' course in Civil En- 
gineering, after which he en- 
tered the office of Levi W. 
Post, a prominent Civil En- 
gineer in Jersey City, as one of 
his assistants, where he re- 
mained for two years. Mr. 
Post subsequently became 
Chief Engineer of the Jersey City Water Department, and he was appointed by 
him as one of his assistants in the Department of Surveys. He remained in this 
office until the expiration of his term, and was then, for a short time, in the office 
of F. H. Earle, a Civil Engineer. In 1882, a partnership was formed under the 
firm name of Vreeland & Wortendyke, Civil Engineers. This was soon afterwards 
dissolved, and the business, comprising general surveying, road construction, 
street and sewer work, and partition of estates, continued in the name of N. D. 
Wortendyke for fourteen years. In 1888, under an act to establish the use of 
local indexes for public records relating to lands in certain counties in the State of 
New Jersey, he was appointed a member of the Board of Surveyors of Hudson 
County, to make an official map of Hudson County for indexing the records 
(known as the Block System), thus simplifying the method of indexing deeds and 




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mortgages. In 1890, he was appointed Division Engineer of the Hudson County 
Boulevard, and remained as such until the completion of the work. In 1897, he 
became Assistant Engineer of the Street and Water Board of Jersey City, and in 
1900, Assistant Chief Engineer of the same Board. This department has general 
supervision over all public contracts. 

He is an associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. 

On October 31, 1883, he married Mary Elizabeth Quick, of Jersey City. 
They have two children, Eleanor Elizabeth, and Rynie Doremus. 



Tndex of Biograpbical Sketcbes 



AuMACK, William 
Aycrigg, John B. 
Booth, Eugene S. 
Bradley, Charles 
Casper, John P. 
CoLBURN, E. E. 

Cox, Henry M. 
Cutler, W. W. 
Devan, Spencer C. 

DlTMARS, C. P. 

DuRYEE, Edward H. 

GiLLMORE, Wm. B. 

Johnson, H. N. 
Johnson, Jerome 
Kelly, Haydn C. 
KuEHNLE, George W. 
Lefferts, John, Jr. 

LiMEBURNER, C. A. 

Lyall, J. Edward 
MiLLiKEN, Peter H. 
Minor, Albert D. 
Moore, Thos. M. 
Mundy, Frank J. 
Murray, David 
Nasholds, Wm. H. 
Nevius, George L. 



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Osborne, Wm. H. 


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OUTSKA, N. Y. 


24 


Palmer, Joseph G. 


2t 


Pierce, C. B. 


23 


Price, Wm. H. 


39 


Prince, John D., Jr. 


27 


Roe, Charles S. 


62 


Romeyn, Jas. a. 


21 


Ross, Edwin F. 


29 


Schomp, Wm. W. 


31 


Staats, Bergen B. 


32 


Stubbs, Rowland H 


33 


Sutphen, Paul F. 


21 


Taylor, Wm. R. 


34 


Vanderpoel, I. D. 


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Van Deusen, C. C. 


60 


Van Zandt, Wm. A. 


36 


Voorhees, F. M. 


37 


Voorhees, j. S. 


38 


Vredenburgh, L. R,, 


40 


Walser, Theo. H. 


43 


Warren, John . 


58 


Winfield, H. W. 


52 


WOODBRIDGE, J. E. 


42 


Woodbridge, S. 1. 


43 


Wortendyke, N. D. 



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